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Space programs and missions · A guided course
Building and sustaining a shared orbital laboratory
Connect orbital assembly, life support, research and international operations to understand how the ISS became a working station rather than a collection of modules.
Suggested preparation is listed in the course · Start whenever you’re ready
NASA identifies this exact conventional photograph as the complete International Space Station after STS-97 undocked on December 9, 2000 during Expedition 1; the inhabited station and its newly deployed P6 solar-array wings are visibly resolved above Earth. Display image resized and compressed.
NASA · Image sourceYour place in the bigger picture
Build on familiar ideas, then choose a direction to explore next. Every course remains open.
Follow stations, transport and international cooperation
Learning to share a long stay in orbit
The International Space Station program
Building and sustaining a shared orbital laboratory
Start whenever you’re ready. Preparation is suggested, and every course stays open.
From development tests to a continuing ride home
Delivering what an orbital laboratory actually needs
From development milestones to a working cargo capability
Canadarm2, Dextre and the moving workshop outside the station
Resupply the station, then turn free flight into a test platform
Deliver supplies, handle external cargo and return a small sample
Build, operate and learn from a laboratory in orbit
An orbital outpost design and a changing lunar strategy
One suggested order from the foundations to The International Space Station program. Shared starting points appear once; skip anything you already know.
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